detergent
Example Sentences
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Dow will make things that go into the detergent bottle.
From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026
Everything became more expensive at the start of the year: meat, milk, salt, flour, potatoes, pasta, bananas, soap, toothpaste, socks, laundry detergent, and many medicines too.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026
Better laundry detergent might help clothing last a little longer.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026
TerraSafe, a North Carolina-based startup that specializes in nonplastic food packaging, used it on a side project—creating laundry detergent sheets that dissolve fully in the wash without sacrificing cleaning power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2026
It was plastic, a soupy bobbing island of it, bags mostly, soda bottles, laundry detergent containers, all the same bleached gray.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
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